NHSN

Concurrent Education Session - 60 minutes

1209 - How Good Is Your Data? How to Use the NHSN Internal Validation Toolkit

Primary Invited Speaker-(CDC/NHSN)(s)

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  Suparna Bagchi, DrPH, MSPH

  HAI Data Validation Lead
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Norcross, Georgia

  Nothing to disclose

Moderator(s)

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  DeAnn Richards, RN, BSN, CIC, HPHQ, CPPS

  Infection Prevention Project Specialist
  MetaStar, Inc.
  Madison, Wisconsin

  Nothing to disclose

Members from the NHSN Validation and Methods and Analytics Team will provide IPs and NHSN users with best practices and helpful tools to conduct facility-level data quality analysis on HAI data.

The session will highlight the data quality checkpoints that are strongly recommended by the NHSN team at CDC, and provide an overview of the data quality analytic efforts that are made by the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Promote the use of NHSN analysis options, the internal validation toolkit, and the data quality checklist to NHSN users to assist facility level data quality efforts.
• Summarize and present previous data quality analysis results conducted by the NHSN Methods and Analytics Team.
• Demonstrate how to use the data quality checklist with the aid of NHSN analysis options.